Jewel's Tragic Real-Life Story

Publish date: 2024-03-15

Especially when Jewel was young and her career was taking off in the 1990s, music industry DJs and journalists said some extremely inappropriate things to her on several occasions. In an interview with Stereogum, the artist recalled on time live on air in South Carolina when the interviewer introduced her by saying, "Hey, you may have heard me describe my next guest as a large-breasted woman from Alaska. Jewel, how are you?" In an even more degrading example, she said, "They'd say, 'So, Jewel, how do you give a blow*** with those f***ed up teeth?"

These days, it may seem unthinkable that someone would treat another human being that way, let alone get away with it on air. Jewel always fought back with her own insults, and she was sometimes kicked out of the radio stations where the interviews took place because of it. 

But hosts were far from the only problem. After the singer spent a few days with a journalist for an in-depth interview, rumors spread that the two did more than just talk, which led to another outrageous moment with a different interviewer. "The guy comes in," she said. "[And] his opening line is, 'Wow. I read the Rolling Stone piece. So, I guess if you don't kiss me in the first five minutes, I should be insulted."

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